Find part of string and remove entire line

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Jacky
Jacky on 11 Jun 2013
Hi,
I have a text file that looks like this 'textfile.txt':
'Algorithm: G:\folder: Example'
'2013-May-30 20:46:10'
'QAdR = 123678'
'QaDB = 9098'
'This is what I wanted'
How do i find all the special characters ':' & '=' and remove the entire row containing ':' & '=' and write it to 'textfile.txt'. My new 'textfile.txt' should only contain 'This is what I wanted'.

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Angus
Angus on 11 Jun 2013
Edited: Angus on 11 Jun 2013
Hi, probably start by reading in the text file
filename='textfile.txt';
f=fopen(filename);
line1=fgetl(f);
Then you could check each line with a regexp and save it if it does not contain your characters.
if isempty(regexp(line1,'[:=]'))
...% save your line
end
and build a new text file from there.
Hope this helps as a start at least.

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